Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1888 — Duties Reduced by Republiccans. [ARTICLE]

Duties Reduced by Republiccans.

Bouton Journal. One of the Democratic party’s favorite modes of atteinpting to impose upon uninformed voters is to assert that our present tariff is a “war” tariff, and that the Republicans have never consented and never will consent to change it. How false such assertions are the Nashua (N. H.) Telegraph very nearly shows in this compact statement of some of the tariff changes for which the Republican party is responsible: \ The Republican party reduced the duty on steel rails from S2B to sl7. The Republican party abolished the duty on coffee. The Republican party abolished the duty on tea. The Republican party abolished the duty on hides. The Republican party abolished the duty on camphor. The Republican party abolished the duty on indigo. The Republican party abolished the duty on maccaroni. The Republican party abolished the duty on nutmegs. The Republican party abolished the duty on bleaching powders. The Republican party put sago on the free list. The Republican party put shellac on the free list. The Republican party put raw silk on the free list. The Republicun party put tin bars on the free list. The Republican party abolished the duty on anthracite coal and reduced the duty on bituminous from $1.25 to 75 cents per ton. These are some of the things which the Bourbon shriekers about the “war tariff” never refer to.